"social demarcation" is a valid phrase that can be used in written English.
It refers to the separation or division of social groups based on factors such as class, race, or wealth. Example: The country's history is marked by a long period of social demarcation, with the wealthy and powerful dominating over the lower classes.
The social demarcations of class, from what we eat and how we talk, to what culture we consume, are also rigorously upheld in more unequal societies, making discrimination much easier and preventing social mobility.
Traveling first class, whether by air, rail or ship, has always been one of the great social demarcations.
Their social demarcations - less subtle, but likely not as lasting - tended toward wedgies and slamming people into lockers.
They were all trespassers in the sense that they crossed the boundary of rigid social-class demarcations and occupied the space of the lower classes.
Rigid social and ethnic demarcations begin to bend when the matriarch of a wealthy white family in New Rochelle, N.Y., provides shelter to an African American washerwoman who is scared and alone after giving birth.
The typical suburban/rural demarcation on social issues is blurred in Louisiana, Mr. Brox said.
"The demarcation between social and communication doesn't exist.
Money, which had really not featured in the British demarcation of social class, became very important.
Most of the indigenous lands now awaiting ratification, he adds, "are concentrated in the center-south and northeast regions of Brazil," where there is still major social conflict over the demarcation of indigenous lands.
Finally, the legal/non-legal demarcation in empirical social science usually reflects more general explanatory premises about the psycho-social factors that account for behavior, well beyond the realm of the legal.
